The Project Chargeback dashboard lets you know how much you must spend to run an VMware Aria Automation managed VM on behalf of your customer. In VMware Aria Operations , you can configure the cost drivers and let the system automatically determine how much a VM costs based on your infrastructure requirement. Cost Drivers cover server hardware, storage, licenses, application, maintenance, labor, network, facilities, and additional costs configured within VMware Aria Operations .
Price is what you charge your customer for running their VM. The price of a VM can be based on the cost of the project or based on a rate card that you define. Prices can include up charges, service charges, and others.
How to Use the Dashboard
- Select a Project widget displays the price of the group. The Select a Deployument widget lets you select deployments under the project, followed by the chargeback metrics.
- Price Summary of Selected Project shows the month to date price of the group.
- VM Price Distribution (Top 100) shows the most expensive VMs in the group.
- Powered Off VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings.
- Idle VMs shows reclaimable VMs and their potential savings.
- Reclaimable VMs with Snapshots shows reclaimable snapshots and their age.
- Price of VMs in the Selected Deployment shows the price and configuration of each VM in the selected group.
